Trait anger expression mediates childhood trauma predicting for adulthood anxiety, depressive, and alcohol use disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

General aggression and evolutionary models posit that more severe early exposure experiences to trauma (physical, emotional, sexual abuse and/or neglect) place one at risk for adulthood psychopathology through heightened trait anger expression-internal (Anger-In) and external (Anger-Out). However, there are a dearth of empirical studies explaining the longitudinal childhood maltreatment-adulthood psychopathology relation.

Objective

Therefore, this study investigated if childhood maltreatment exposure severity predicted elevated adulthood major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Moreover, we tested if trait anger expression - internal and external - mediated the childhood maltreatment-

SUBMITTER: Win E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8154744 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature